Friday, July 15, 2016 Moyano begins long farewell from CGTCGT boss Hugo Moyano began his long farewell from the leadership of the umbrella union yesterday with a surprise announcement that he would be staying on until August 22 — the date set for the reunification of all three splinter groups — while at the same time accepting praise from his colleagues and criticizing the Mauricio Macri government. Moyano received warm applause from unions leaders as he gave his final speech to union conference, saying that “we will continue to fight for the interests and rights of workers, no matter whom we have to fight against.”

Friday, July 15, 2016 AFA announces final list of playersStriker Calleri leaves São Paulo and joins national squadThe Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced yesterday the final 18-player list for the under-23 national squad that will compete in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month. Striker Calleri, who played his last match in São Paulo of Brazil on Wednesday, will be one of the last players to join the squad. The former Boca Juniors’ forward was called up for the national team after Villarreal did not allow Luciano Vietto to join the squad. Calleri, 22, scored in Wednesday’s match against Atlético Nacional of Colombia in the Libertadores Cup semifinal, but São Paulo was eliminated after losing 4-1 on aggregate. Also, four players were chosen as alternatives in case some of the 18 players suffer an injury: goalkeeper Ezequiel Unsain, defender Nicolás Tripicchio, midfielder Martín Benítez and forward Cristian Pavón.

"Dear Nicois," local mayor Christian Estrosi tweeted, "The driver of a truck appears to have killed dozens of people. Almost exactly eight months ago Islamic State militants killed 130 people in Paris. US government agencies have received constant reports of Islamic State threats to attack France and those threats are regarded as current, a U.S. security official said. CNN said it has spoken to a witness, identified as an American pilot, who saw the truck ramming the crowd. Regional newspaper Nice Matin quoted its reporter at the scene saying there were many injured people and blood on the street.

The issue of food waste is increasingly recognised as a severe global problem, with some 1.3bn tonnes of food produced for human consumption lost each year. Celebrity chef Narda Lepes has launched several youtube videos in order to advise on different ways to cut down on food waste and loss. “At the start the idea was for the social fridge to stock the food we no longer needed as a business. It’s a simply a fridge.” Yet he states the the social fridge aims to go as far as possible, “to distribute social fridges as we receive them. In Ciudadela, a gritty suburb just outside the capital, a social fridge is now operating outside a school.

Since Israel came under increased international pressure in the 1990s to stop establishing new settlements, about 100 officially unauthorized outposts have been founded in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In that time, Shiloh outposts have become ringed with “circles of violence,” said Yesh Din spokesman Gilad Grossman. But for Palestinians — who face an Israeli bid to confiscate hundreds of acres near Shiloh outposts, Yesh Din says — the appearance of a lone trailer is ominous. Thursday, July 14, 2016 Officially unauthorized outpostsPalestinian farmer Rabah Ali, 49, stands in front of a dead horse he said was dumped on his land by settlers of Adi Ad, an unauthorized outpost behind him that is seeking legal status. Esh Kodesh is one of five outposts seeking Israeli recognition as neighbourhoods of the authorized settlement of Shiloh, Katsof said.

Rico provoked controversy over the Bicentennial weekend when he attended Saturday’s Independence anniversary parade on Del Libertador Avenue in BA City, a move repudiated by leading veterans organizations including the MECOMA group for conscripted Malvinas War veterans. Defence Minister Julio Martínez, a Radical (UCR) leader like Alfonsín, said he was not aware that Rico would be in attendance. Thursday, July 14, 2016 Scheduled appearance by Aldo Rico widely criticizedThe announcement that former lieutenant-colonel Aldo Rico would attend a memorial service for Malvinas War veterans in Granadero Baigorria, Santa Fe province tomorrow provoked anger and repudiation from veterans groups, political parties and human rights organizations alike yesterday, as they slammed the military man’s ties to dictatorship-era repression and the failed Carapintada military coup he led against former president Raúl Alfonsín’s government in 1987. It was signed by the Socialist (PS) party of Baigorria, the Evita Movement, Victory Front (FpV) youth group La Cámpora and a local teachers’ collective among other organizations. Herald with Télam

Thursday, July 14, 2016 Second half or extra time? As a beacon of optimism, the “second half” already seems to be over before mid-July and just a couple of days after the Bicentennial weekend. Not the ideal start for a “second half” which was supposed to have inflation trending downward to and below a monthly two percent. Plenty of gloom and doom, then, to suggest that the “second half” is over before it has begun but perhaps we should wait until the second half of the year after all — these next six months are sure to be a failure when measured against the expectations of the first half of 2016 but could end up looking quite good when compared to the current mood. It was always assumed that industrial take-off would have to await the advent of investment (in the “second half” at the earliest and probably beyond) but from the moment Macri came to office, both sides of the trade ledger were supposed to expand.

Thursday, July 14, 2016 Women take centre stage in British politicsBy Stephanie BakerBloombergAfter male politicians led the UK into “Brexit,” women are taking centre stage to clean up the mess. Theresa May haso become the UK’s second female prime minister and promised to take Britain out of the European Union. For the Labour opposition the figure is 43 percent, in part because the party has fielded only women candidates in some constituencies. In the private sector, there are six female chief executive officers at FTSE-100 companies and women hold 26 percent of board seats. Despite May’s success and the campaigning to get more female politicians selected, almost 26 years after Margaret Thatcher quit as PM women make up only 21 percent of Conservative parliament members.

The key food and beverages category saw price increases in line with overall inflation, 3.1 percent. In June, core inflation stood at three percent, up from 2.7 percent in May. Thursday, July 14, 2016 INDEC posts 3.1% increase for June, with core stat risingIndec’s director Jorge Todesca is seen talking to reporters at the bureau’s headquarters in this file photo. For months now the government has been predicting a decline in core inflation, but so far the road has been bumpy, with ups and downs. Overall inflation meanwhile, was down by 1.1 percentage points when compared to May, when price hikes amounted to 4.2 percent.

Thursday, July 14, 2016 New UK PM Theresa May names Brexit CabinetBritain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and husband Philip pose for the media outside Number 10 Downing Street, in central London, yesterday. LONDON — Theresa May became Britain’s prime minister yesterday, tasked with the unenviable challenge of leading the United Kingdom out of the European Union. ‘Burning justice’May will be Queen Elizabeth’s 13th prime minister in a line that started with Winston Churchill. “Brexit means Brexit” has quickly become her new mantra. Now!”The United States congratulated May and said it was confident in her ability to steer Britain through the Brexit negotiations.

Of the 3,100 enrolled medical students at the UNLP’s School of Medicine this year to take the term-time assessments, a whopping 98 percent failed their introductory courses in Biology, Anatomy and Histology (microanatomy). “The Medical School is not made of rubber. ‘Bad preparation, no drive’Meanwhile, the dean of the UNLP School of Medicine Ana Errecalde said that the low pass rates were a direct result of insufficient preparation in secondary schools for prospective medical students. Errecalde identified as a key cause of the results the “bad preparation of students leaving secondary (school), who they are not given incentives to study and read, we noticed that they were really lost this year.”She also said that a lack of motiviation from new students arriving from secondary school had exacerbated the situation in tandem with bad preparation. We are asking universities that, instead of adding extra courses and exams, they help at the secondary level, interact with secondary (education) to strengthen education quality before university,” Bullrich told Radio La Red.

Gabriel: We want people to know about the cultures that live on the other side of silence. It’s a lot of work, and our main goal is to show how eroticism finds expressions in different cultures throughout the centuries. In our culture, eroticism is stigmatized because it’s associated with pornography. Women are revered in every ancestral culture. In some cultures, like in the pygmies’ culture, there are specific chants for sexual initiation, for kissing and even for oral sex.

ARGRA’s Annual Photojournalism exhibit (covering 2015) runs until 15th August at the Palais de Glace on Posadas 1725. The 27th Annual Sample of Argentine Photojournalism is located on the top floor of this beautiful building. It is not a huge exhibit, and it is definitely worthwhile to take an hour or two to admire the best of Argentine photojournalism. The annual review covers all of different subjects, so every photography connoisseur will be pleased. Compare that to life in a metropolitan city and it is shows that there really is no typical Argentine life.

Access to consumption has become key among these factors, part of a global phenomenon that is particularly intense in Argentina. Though more spasmodically, consumption also moved its way into a central role in the country’s political life. Whether due to the influence of European immigration or the egalitarian principles behind public education and early access to social rights, it is clear that in Argentina consumption is the fundamental pillar on which power is accumulated. This created a previously non-existent intermediate segment between the lavish aristocracy and the subsistence consumers of the rest of society. But the central idea is that since its disruptive beginnings two centuries ago, consumption has been occupying more and more ground in our social lives.

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 White House congratulates May, confident on her Brexit handlingThe White House on Wednesday congratulated incoming British Prime Minister Theresa May and said it was confident in her ability to steer Britain through negotiations on leaving the European Union. "Based on the public comments we've seen from the incoming prime minister, she intends to pursue a course that's consistent with the course that President Obama has offered," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing.